Betrayal

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Jonathan Ancer. Betrayal

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Conclusion

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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THE SECRET LIVES

OF APARTHEID SPIES

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The British eventually identified the spy, a very senior naval officer, but it wasn’t Dieter Gerhardt. It was someone else. Those are the kinds of surprises that happen. There wasn’t just one agent spying for Russia in Portsmouth – there were at least two. The British quietly retired the spy they uncovered. A spy does more damage than just passing on confidential information. When a spy is exposed, the state or organisation is weakened in the eyes of the public and the news makes for demoralisation. It also creates mistrust, which is why spies who are unmasked are often put out to pasture rather than put on trial.

The British thought they had plugged the leak, but soon the flow of information continued and the Brits realised there was another spy. So it was back to the drawing board. A CIA counter-intelligence operative in the research and analysis division then launched a hunt for the mole. She went through all the documents and information the Soviet defector had provided and she came up with a name: Commodore Dieter Gerhardt. ‘She’s the one who nailed him to the floor,’ says the former counter-intelligence operative. The CIA didn’t believe her at first, but she was right. Once they had a name, the investigation really started.

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